Estimator - Tranquil Recruitment Solutions Ltd : Job Details

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, the Estimator is responsible for producing bid packages for new and existing projects in line with Company procedures and customer requirements.

Role & Responsibilities

• Creation of the bid package
• Maintain records of WIP, failed and won bid packages.
• Work in conjunction with Engineering, Customer Services, Program Management, Purchasing and Finance to support customer quotation requests to tight and aggressive deadlines.
• Effective escalation of threats or blockers to the bid submission.
• Communication with all levels of management and external suppliers.
• Active recording of 'lessons learnt’ to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the bidding process.
• Identify improvement activities to drive the estimating process towards consistent best practices.
• Gain personal skills and experience to reduce reliance on external/internal staff for the creation of bids.
• Become proficient in the use of all relevant estimating software or spreadsheets.
• Create new items/assemblies/routings/BoMs within the inhouse systems database.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Comply with all relevant internal rules, policies and procedures, including those related to Health and Safety, Data Protection and issued Employee Handbook.

Knowledge & Experience

• Strong commercial, manufacturing and engineering background with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to create method of manufacture for both development and production components.
• Good understanding of quality requirements within the aerospace industry - ability to read and interpret specifications.
• Proven and relevant cost estimating experience covering both manufactured parts, purchased parts and processing.
• Experience of constructing bid packages in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
• Ability to identify and communicate business risks when constructing bids.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Full understanding of multi-level / mixed BoM structures, with an understanding of fabrication, machining and assembly stages and methods.
• Knowledge of assembly
• IT literate to intermediate level (Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint and outlook)
• Knowledge of PFMEA’s, DCM’s, Control plans, inspection methods, etc.

• Worked in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work without supervision.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to multitask.

Hours of work

39 hour working week Monday - Friday